Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 60 63
Rank change year-on-year -57 +3 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,475 1,888 3,650
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.64% 4.35% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 4.66% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,033 1,030 2,746
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £83,759
90th Percentile £117,250 £114,325 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.57% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,447 40,520 82,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.89% 93.32% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 42,708 22,234 59,552
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 13 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -57 1,341 £75,000 - 540
London +7 693 £87,500 +2.94% 231
UK excluding London -120 656 £67,500 -3.57% 357
Work from Home -32 638 £70,000 - 320
North of England -61 296 £69,310 -4.07% 115
South East -85 154 £67,500 - 105
North West -65 147 £70,932 -2.16% 72
Yorkshire -47 94 £69,310 -5.94% 22
Midlands -104 63 £67,500 +3.85% 50
South West -82 62 £52,500 -23.39% 46
North East +4 55 £65,000 +18.18% 21
West Midlands -68 41 £75,000 +7.14% 27
East of England -24 39 £60,100 +4.52% 18
Scotland -69 33 £62,500 -16.67% 12
East Midlands -72 21 £67,250 +7.60% 23
Wales -38 9 £53,171 +2.25% 6
Northern Ireland -32 7 £62,500 +13.64% 8
Isle of Man - 2 £35,000 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.15%) Confluence
3 16 (1.08%) Apache
4 14 (0.95%) IIS
4 14 (0.95%) OpenStack
4 14 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 13 (0.88%) CMS
6 12 (0.81%) JBoss
7 11 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.41%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.41%) WordPress
9 5 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.34%) Drupal
10 4 (0.27%) Camunda
10 4 (0.27%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.20%) Appian
11 3 (0.20%) Liferay
11 3 (0.20%) nginx
12 2 (0.14%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (0.61%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.47%) Maya
2 7 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.41%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.14%) Endur
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.068%) Actimize
6 1 (0.068%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.068%) Quorum
6 1 (0.068%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.068%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.068%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 786 (53.29%) AWS
2 610 (41.36%) Azure
3 297 (20.14%) GCP
4 243 (16.47%) Serverless
5 150 (10.17%) SaaS
6 123 (8.34%) Azure DevOps
6 123 (8.34%) GitHub
7 114 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
8 103 (6.98%) Amazon S3
9 83 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
10 81 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 70 (4.75%) Amazon SQS
12 68 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
13 59 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
14 54 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
15 46 (3.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 44 (2.98%) Azure AKS
16 44 (2.98%) Datadog
17 41 (2.78%) PaaS
18 40 (2.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.07%) Broadband
2 17 (1.15%) Network Security
3 10 (0.68%) HTTP
4 9 (0.61%) DNS
5 8 (0.54%) Internet
5 8 (0.54%) MQTT
6 7 (0.47%) AMQP
6 7 (0.47%) Firewall
6 7 (0.47%) VPN
7 6 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.41%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.34%) DHCP
8 5 (0.34%) LTE
9 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
9 3 (0.20%) Modbus
9 3 (0.20%) RFID
9 3 (0.20%) SNMP
9 3 (0.20%) WAN
10 1 (0.068%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (12.68%) NoSQL
2 181 (12.27%) MongoDB
3 171 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
4 87 (5.90%) SQL Server
5 82 (5.56%) MySQL
6 74 (5.02%) Elasticsearch
7 72 (4.88%) Relational Database
8 57 (3.86%) DynamoDB
9 49 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
10 39 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
11 35 (2.37%) BigQuery
11 35 (2.37%) Redis
12 30 (2.03%) Big Data
13 22 (1.49%) RDBMS
14 14 (0.95%) Pinecone
15 13 (0.88%) Power BI
16 10 (0.68%) Data Lake
16 10 (0.68%) DB2
17 8 (0.54%) Tableau
18 7 (0.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 191 (12.95%) Git
2 133 (9.02%) GitLab
3 125 (8.47%) Jenkins
4 46 (3.12%) JIRA
4 46 (3.12%) TeamCity
5 36 (2.44%) JUnit
6 34 (2.31%) Cucumber
7 33 (2.24%) CircleCI
8 32 (2.17%) Cypress.io
9 25 (1.69%) Maven
10 23 (1.56%) Mockito
11 21 (1.42%) Claude Code
12 18 (1.22%) SonarQube
13 17 (1.15%) Selenium
14 16 (1.08%) Bitbucket
14 16 (1.08%) Vite
15 10 (0.68%) JMeter
16 8 (0.54%) Visual Studio
17 7 (0.47%) NUnit
17 7 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
General
1 426 (28.88%) Finance
2 304 (20.61%) Social Skills
3 149 (10.10%) Banking
4 117 (7.93%) Public Sector
5 93 (6.31%) Law
6 91 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
7 71 (4.81%) Retail
8 65 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 44 (2.98%) Financial Institution
10 38 (2.58%) Telecoms
11 36 (2.44%) Back Office
12 24 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.22%) Billing
13 18 (1.22%) Legal
14 16 (1.08%) Games
15 15 (1.02%) Advertising
15 15 (1.02%) Marketing
16 14 (0.95%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.81%) Front Office
18 10 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 517 (35.05%) Developer
2 388 (26.31%) Senior
3 286 (19.39%) Software Engineer
4 214 (14.51%) Architect
5 195 (13.22%) Lead
6 129 (8.75%) Full-Stack Developer
7 125 (8.47%) Java Developer
8 121 (8.20%) Senior Developer
9 98 (6.64%) .NET Developer
9 98 (6.64%) Senior Software Engineer
10 95 (6.44%) Java Engineer
11 90 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
12 60 (4.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 58 (3.93%) Software Developer
14 56 (3.80%) Lead Developer
15 50 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
16 47 (3.19%) Principal Engineer
17 43 (2.92%) C# Developer
17 43 (2.92%) Senior Java Developer
18 42 (2.85%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 335 (22.71%) React
2 319 (21.63%) .NET
3 269 (18.24%) RESTful
4 263 (17.83%) Node.js
5 234 (15.86%) Spring
6 215 (14.58%) REST
7 211 (14.31%) Spring Boot
8 179 (12.14%) Kafka
9 127 (8.61%) AngularJS
10 109 (7.39%) .NET Core
11 94 (6.37%) ASP.NET
12 91 (6.17%) gRPC
13 90 (6.10%) Vue
14 79 (5.36%) HTML
15 73 (4.95%) ASP.NET Core
16 72 (4.88%) CSS
17 66 (4.47%) RabbitMQ
18 65 (4.41%) .NET Framework
19 53 (3.59%) OAuth
20 49 (3.32%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 405 (27.46%) Cloud Native
2 248 (16.81%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (7.25%) Product Ownership
4 84 (5.69%) Enterprise Software
5 60 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
6 57 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
7 46 (3.12%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (3.05%) Over-the-Top Content
9 38 (2.58%) Algorithms
10 37 (2.51%) Data Structures
11 29 (1.97%) Distributed Architecture
12 26 (1.76%) Blockchain
13 25 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.63%) Mobile App
15 22 (1.49%) AI Agents
16 21 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
16 21 (1.42%) Public Cloud
17 19 (1.29%) Virtual Team
18 17 (1.15%) Web3
19 16 (1.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 82 (5.56%) Linux
2 42 (2.85%) Windows
3 20 (1.36%) Unix
4 12 (0.81%) Android
5 7 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.34%) CentOS
6 5 (0.34%) Debian
6 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.27%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.068%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 713 (48.34%) CI/CD
2 601 (40.75%) Agile
3 542 (36.75%) DevOps
4 534 (36.20%) Software Engineering
5 380 (25.76%) Containerisation
6 371 (25.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 331 (22.44%) Mentoring
8 291 (19.73%) Test Automation
9 287 (19.46%) Event-Driven
10 284 (19.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 284 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
11 278 (18.85%) AI
12 246 (16.68%) Infrastructure as Code
13 192 (13.02%) Scrum
14 178 (12.07%) Computer Science
15 171 (11.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 168 (11.39%) Technical Leadership
17 167 (11.32%) Coaching
18 159 (10.78%) Clean Code
19 158 (10.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 483 (32.75%) Java
2 399 (27.05%) Python
3 315 (21.36%) SQL
4 312 (21.15%) JavaScript
5 291 (19.73%) C#
6 240 (16.27%) TypeScript
7 126 (8.54%) Go
8 50 (3.39%) Scala
9 48 (3.25%) PHP
10 47 (3.19%) C++
11 38 (2.58%) Bash
12 31 (2.10%) C
13 30 (2.03%) Ruby
14 24 (1.63%) PL/SQL
15 21 (1.42%) Rust
16 18 (1.22%) Kotlin
16 18 (1.22%) PowerShell
17 16 (1.08%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.95%) Groovy
19 10 (0.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 184 (12.47%) Degree
2 161 (10.92%) Security Cleared
3 103 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 101 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (3.59%) AWS Certification
6 29 (1.97%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 27 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 23 (1.56%) CISSP
9 22 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
10 17 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.95%) DBS Check
12 12 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
13 11 (0.75%) CISM
14 8 (0.54%) PhD
15 6 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.41%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.34%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (6.71%) QA
2 35 (2.37%) Accessibility
3 29 (1.97%) GDPR
4 27 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.49%) NIST
7 16 (1.08%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.68%) NCSC
10 9 (0.61%) GRC
10 9 (0.61%) WCAG
11 7 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.41%) IFRS
13 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.20%) SLA
15 2 (0.14%) Data Quality
15 2 (0.14%) SEPA
16 1 (0.068%) EMIR
System Software
1 443 (30.03%) Docker
2 13 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.20%) Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.068%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 462 (31.32%) Kubernetes
2 270 (18.31%) Terraform
3 83 (5.63%) Ansible
4 77 (5.22%) Grafana
5 45 (3.05%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.90%) Argo
7 19 (1.29%) Kibana
8 18 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.81%) Puppet
10 9 (0.61%) HP Fortify
11 7 (0.47%) Cilium
12 4 (0.27%) Packer
12 4 (0.27%) Rancher
13 3 (0.20%) Istio
13 3 (0.20%) Nagios
13 3 (0.20%) Podman
14 2 (0.14%) MIIS
14 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 157 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.41%) Google
3 50 (3.39%) Oracle
4 45 (3.05%) Typelevel
5 23 (1.56%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.08%) AppDynamics
6 16 (1.08%) Dynatrace
7 14 (0.95%) Red Hat
8 13 (0.88%) IBM
8 13 (0.88%) Splunk
9 11 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
9 11 (0.75%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.68%) SAP
11 9 (0.61%) Adobe
11 9 (0.61%) Cisco
11 9 (0.61%) Guidewire
12 7 (0.47%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.47%) Databricks
13 6 (0.41%) Juniper
13 6 (0.41%) Software AG